How to fantasise

Australian fantasy writer Richard Harland is giving two sold-out workshops for the festival at the State Library. But if you've missed out, Harland, a former university lecturer, spent the past four months writing a 145-page free website full of advice for genre writers of all levels.

The tips begin with How To Have Ideas ("What if that man on the train had a long knife in the package he's cradling in his lap?") to Creating Characters, Story and Language and, finally, Getting Published. The site is well organised, wittily illustrated and credible as Harland has published 15 novels and the latest, Worldshaker, recently sold to Simon & Schuster in the US for "a fabulous advance", before Australian publication this month.

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by Susan WyndhamMay 16, 2009 1:02 PM

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Thank you for this - didn't know about this page, and I find it hard to get to writer's groups and such to work on my writing, so any other resources I can get are much appreciated!